Advances in Physiology Education, Vol 267, Issue 6 87-S94, Copyright © 1994 by American Physiological Society
Evaluation of a summer enrichment physiology course for matriculating medical students
R. G. Carroll and M. G. Lee-Tyson
Department of Physiology, East Carolina University School of Medicine, Greenville, North Carolina 27858-4354.
A summer enrichment physiology course for matriculating medical students
has met a number of short-term goals, including bringing the students to
the level of average medical student performance by the end of the summer.
The long-term benefit of the program was evaluated by constructing a
prospective expectation for each member of the medical class. Physiology
grades obtained by past medical students were regressed on their
undergraduate grades and MCAT scores. This regression model was used in a
prospective manner to predict a physiology course grade for the entering
class. Six of the seven summer program participants achieved scores equal
to or higher than their predicted scores. Additionally, the regression
model identified prospectively four of the six medical students who scored
below 70% for the medical physiology course. This study suggests that a
summer enrichment program can benefit participants.
